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Nantucket

The waters off South Caicos island, 2023.

Dozens of messages in bottles tossed by a Nantucket fisherman are found around the world

Lifestyle

Fisherman Pennel Ames tossed hundreds of messages in bottles into the ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, asking anyone who found them to write back to him. Two decades later, people are still finding them around the world.

Blue Crab Nantucket

A determined UMass undergrad is gathering important data on the Nantucket Harbor crab population

Environment
Nantucket erosion aerial

Nantucket’s bluffs and beaches are crumbling in the face of storms and rising seas

Environment
A slushy wave off the coast of Nantucket, in Massachusetts

What a frozen day at the beach looks like when the waves turn to slush

Environment
The World

Washington causes stir by approving nation’s first off-shore wind farm

Global Politics
The World

Will an offshore wind farm in Nantucket become a reality?

Global Politics

U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar will decide whether or not to build an offshore wind farm off of Nantucket Sound. Opponents of the project are threatening to sue if it is approved.

The World

Geo answer

Arts, Culture & Media

The answer to our Geo Quiz today MAY be the site of a historic shipwreck. It’s a treacherous stretch of the Atlantic Ocean called Long Shoal (one of the Nantucket Shoals) located between Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts.